6" square white frame with genuine butterfly specimens (not endangered.) New however the frames are not detailed with caulking well on the corners. Wood frame in white. Easy to fix if you are concerned.

Winner of the 2005 Whitley Award for Field Guides. This is the first complete field guide to all butterfly species on Australia’s mainland and its remote islands. Written by one of Australia's leading lepidopterists, it is stunningly illustrated with color photographs of each of the 416 currently identified species. There is also a distributio...

6" square white frame with genuine butterfly specimens (not endangered.) New however the frames are not detailed with caulking well on the corners. Wood frame in white. Easy to fix if you are concerned.

The Ambrax Swallowtail (Papilio ambrax) is a large and handsome butterfly that occurs in rainforest of the Wet Tropics and the Mackay district of mid-east Queensland. Although it is not common on this patch, this species turns up regularly in the late wet to early dry.

When you next visit you will be greeted by a new sign at the entrance, the old one has been retired after doing a great job since 1994, it had been retouched once but was now looking very secondhand with the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher falling off the sign! So we now have a more modern sign reflecting our logo. 18mm of rain during the week which was less than the previous week, just a few showers with distant thunderstorms which avoided us.

A chrysalis has formed - it looks just like a leaf that has folded over, and the caterpillar must fold a leaf over itself to form the top of the chrysalis. I would never have found it if I wasn't looking.

Papilio lorquinianus, the Sea Green Swallowtail, is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Indonesia, Sulawesi, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and in the Philippines. Photos: Sentosa Butterfly Park & Insect Kingdom, Singapore [20130404] Source: Wikipedia